Warframe’s 2025 end of year update is all about The Old Peace, as hallucinated via communal Matrix bath

Get acceptable to ticker immoderate treaties get treated precise poorly

Warframe scares maine a bit. Ok, it scares maine a lot. Here's this large free-to-play MMO that's been increasing for implicit a decade, adding layers upon layers of analyzable sci-fi lore and discourse to its imposing metallic form.

I couldn't archer you earlier googling it wherefore 1 of my chap nonfiction writers had declared successful the chat for a caller property preview that Excalibur Prime users won't beryllium spared erstwhile the gyration comes. I tin archer you that its extremity of twelvemonth 2025 update is called The Old Peace, and looks similar it'll beryllium a hoot.

The Old Peace, which developers Digital Extremes person conscionable shown disconnected a demo of astatine this year's variation of yearly Warframe get-together TennCon, is each astir "the war-scarring struggle betwixt the Orokin, their creations, and a conjugation of Dax Anarch Warriors" upon the Perita moon". The demo of it kicked disconnected with the subordinate warring a immense robo-lad that turned retired to beryllium manned by a tiny robo-lady, who past accompanies you done events you're hallucinating via a Matrix-esque tech bath with The Lotus, the mysterious fig who talks you done missions from the commencement of the game.

"You had the caller war, you cognize astir the aged war," Warframe originative manager Rebecca Ford said of the update, "but present it's clip to larn astir the aged peace, where, arsenic with each wars, determination was a infinitesimal successful clip erstwhile determination was an effort for peace, a treaty. There was a clip connected Tau erstwhile things could person been different."

The Old Peace, which'll grow Warframe's absorption accomplishment histrion and adhd successful a caller baddie faction, is bringing with it a standalone broadside communicative called The Devil's Triad that looks similar it'll spot you instrumentality connected 3 scary bosses to gain a caller warframe and a mates of caller protoframes. The frame's dubbed Uriel, it's devil themed, and it's besides the past warframe that the game's erstwhile creation manager Michael 'Mynki' Brennan worked connected anterior to his decease from crab successful October past year.

Before each of that, the game'll besides beryllium getting an autumn update featuring a Lavos Deluxe cosmetic, a rework of the Oberon frame, and a quest called The Teacher. The latter's designed to thatch you each astir modding successful Warframe, which sadly is of the adding worldly to cogwheel successful a crippled variety, alternatively than the downloading a happening that turns NPCs into Shrek variety.

The Devil's Triad look delightfully devilish, Seymour. | Image credit: Digital Extremes

Digital Extremes besides announced that a standalone Warframe TTRPG module, made successful collaboration with sci-fi dice crippled Starfinder devs Paizo and dubbed Warframe x Starfinder: Operation Orias, is launching successful October this year.

Going backmost to The Old Peace, the precise extremity of its TennoCon showing teases Warframe's future, with an update dubbed Tau coming successful 2026 acceptable to proceed the game's existent "Void War" communicative arc. "We person a precise ambitious adjacent mates of years [planned], to get the roots of Warframe and everything we're gonna request [in place] to proceed this brainsick journey," Ford said.

So, nary slowing down successful show for the monolithic MMO's continued metamorphosis, adjacent arsenic Digital Extremes' different project, Soulframe, inches person to afloat release.